The Alignment of PowerWalks and T-TESS

To conclude this series of T-TESS alignment posts, we’ll discuss formative walks-thru’s.  Principals are beginning to realize that the T-TESS implemented correctly means coaching and supporting staff to better implement better and best practice.  And to do this effectively, a tool that creates “game-film” for teachers is no longer a want... it is a necessity.  And any formative assessment tool that is not aligned to T-TESS, is now essentially a waste of time.  So where to find a formative assessment tool that creates game film for teachers and is aligned to T-TESS?  It’s a short list and at the top of the list is PowerWalks.  The chart below shows the alignment of the individual PowerWalks observation modules and the individual components of T-TESS    

PowerWalks and T-TESS

Module 8 is a customization feature that allows for campus specific observation elements.  Those elements may or may not align to T-TESS specifications.

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn...

• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “The Fundamental 5: The Formula for Quality Instruction.” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/Fundamental5 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks CLC (Networked Formative Observation Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: Texas Association of Secondary School Principals Conference (Multiple Presentations); Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association Conference (Multiple Presentations); LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote); The 4^th Annual Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

The Alignment of The Fundamental 5 and T-TESS

There are a lot of teachers suffering from heartburn trying to figure out how they will meet all the requirements of T-TESS.  Relax.  The secret to meeting T-TESS requirements is to focus on better implementing better and best practice.

But where to start?  Start (and finish) with working to implement The Fundamental 5 with greater frequency and quality.  Do that and the T-TESS will solve itself.  Sounds too easy? For proof, just review the alignemnt chart below.

No hype, notice how the individual practices of The Fundamental 5 align to the individual components of T-TESS.

The Fundamental 5 and T-TESS

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn...

• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “The Fundamental 5: The Formula for Quality Instruction.” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/Fundamental5 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks CLC (Networked Formative Observation Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: Texas Association of Secondary School Principals Conference (Multiple Presentations); Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association Conference (Multiple Presentations); LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote); The 4^th Annual Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

The Alignment of The Foundation Trinity and T-TESS

The best advice I give to teachers and administrators as to what to do for T-TESS is this...

Work to get better at implementing better and best practice and T-TESS will solve itself. Don’t work to better implement better and best practice, and it doesn’t matter what evaluation tool is used, you are living on borrowed time. 

So working to get better at implementing better and best practice sounds good, but what does that look like? In the next three post, I will provide visuals that illustrate the alignment of best practice to T-TESS. First up, how the individual components of The Foundation Trinity align to the individual components of T-TESS.

The Foundation Trinity and T-TESS

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn...

• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “The Fundamental 5: The Formula for Quality Instruction.” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/Fundamental5 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks CLC (Networked Formative Observation Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: Texas Association of Secondary School Principals Conference (Multiple Presentations); Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association Conference (Multiple Presentations); LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote); The 4^th Annual Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook

Top LYS Tweets From the Week of June 5, 2016

If you are not following @LYSNation on Twitter, then you missed the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of June 5, 2016 when they were first posted.  And if you are on Twitter, you might want to check out the Tweeters who made this week’s list.

1. Congratulations to LYSer, John Schumacher! He is the new Superintendent in Mason ISD!! Who will be next? (By @LYSNation)

2. For our leaders to ignore the current crisis in public education funding is ignorant. For them to deny it is immoral. (By @pastors4txkids)

3. "We starve schools to death by slashing funding and subsequently blame them for dying." (By @pastors4txkids)

4. The best aren't born that way. They work harder and practice more to master their craft. (By @JonGordon11)

5. "In life I never lose, I either win or learn." –Unknown (By @clwilkens)

6. Neighborhood and community schools are the great incubators of American participatory democracy. We make citizens there. (By @pastors4txkids)

7. The Texas Legislature may continue to sacrifice our children's future on the altar of political expediency, but not without us hammering their conscience. (By @pastors4txkids)

8. Know it all leaders do not know as much as they think. (By @TinneyTroy)

9. For all its bravado about a ‘can-do’ economy, Texas wears a dunce cap and sits in the corner when it comes to education funding. (By @pastors4txkids)

10. Texas Governor Greg Abbott on school finance ruling: "A victory for Texas taxpayers" Translation: We don't have to squander money on underfunded Texas schools. (By @WayneSlater)

Think. Work. Achieve.

Your turn...

• Call Jo at (832) 477-LEAD to order your campus set of “The Fundamental 5: The Formula for Quality Instruction.” Individual copies available on Amazon.com!  http://tinyurl.com/Fundamental5 
• Now at the Apple App Store: Fun 5 Timer (Fundamental 5 Delivery Tool); PowerWalks CLC (Networked Formative Observation Tool) 
• Upcoming Presentations: Texas Association of Secondary School Principals Conference (Multiple Presentations); Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association Conference (Multiple Presentations); LYS / TASSP Advanced Leadership Academy (Keynote); The 4^th Annual Fundamental 5 National Summit (Keynote) 
• Follow Sean Cain and LYS on www.Twitter.com/LYSNation  and like Lead Your School on Facebook